Romantic Comedy - Screwball or Farce Sub-genre

For my opening sequence I am going to be creating a farcical romantic comedy, otherwise know as a 'screwball romantic comedy'.

Characteristics of screwball comedies include:

  • reverse class snobbery, so to be poor is somehow to be better
  • a major inversion or subversion of the character's normality
  • role play - characters engage in masquerade, taking on different names, personae, accents
  • a blend of sophistication and slapstick
  • lines spoken rapidly
Examples of modern and classic screwball comedies include Meet the Parents, What's up, Doc? and Sex and the Single Girl.



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